Paul Ruud

[Paul Ruud]

Hello everyone! I am a beginning woodturner, although I have been a woodworker for longer than I care to admit. I was given a Powermatic 3520A recently by a friend who was replacing it with a new Robust lathe and that is how I got started. The lathe needed a new VFD and I found a very helpful post here on the AAW Forums that, along with careful comparison of several manuals and some experimentation, made it possible for me to make a replacement with a brand new VFD. At this point, I am focusing on turning bowls but having a lathe in my shop has been a great help for other purposes as well.

I am also an avid cyclist and a college professor. I teach economics at Vassar College in the Mid-Hudson Valley. My wonderful wife and I live on 4 acres with enough trees to give me all the wood that I need. I even built a solar wood kiln to dry the boards that I mill. Turning bowls is, of course, steering some logs away from the milling process.

You are all a wonderful resource. I am thankful to be able to benefit from the AAW Forums. I have already made my first post to try to give back.

 

[Lance Mirrer]

Welcome!! Looking forward to seeing your work and more of your technical posts. Enjoyed the one about sharpening angles.

Have fun.

 

[Alan Weinberg]

Great that you are here.

 

[Pat Wisniewski]

Welcome.

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Dave Hulett]

Welcome to woodturning and the AAW. Let the obsession begin!

 

[Paul Ruud]

Thanks, everyone. Indeed, let the obsession begin!

 

[Bill Boehme]

Welcome aboard, Paul. I read your excellent PDF tutorial and figured that you might be a mathematician.

 

[Paul Ruud]

Welcome aboard, Paul. I read your excellent PDF tutorial and figured that you might be a mathematician.

Thank you. And fair inference, Bill. My field of economics is called econometrics, which is the application of statistics to economics, and I am at the mathematical end of the spectrum. 😁

 

[Rip Littig]

Welcome. That's one very nice friend you have!

 

[Paul Ruud]

Welcome. That's one very nice friend you have!

Thanks, Rip! What friend you are referring to?

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

Welcome from Ohio! The forest behind your avatar looks pretty stocked with wood!!

 

[Rip Littig]

Thanks, Rip! What friend you are referring to?

"I was given a Powermatic 3520A recently by a friend who was replacing it with a new Robust lathe and that is how I got started."

That friend

 

[Paul Ruud]

"I was given a Powermatic 3520A recently by a friend who was replacing it with a new Robust lathe and that is how I got started."

That friend

Oh, THAT friend.

 

[Paul Ruud]

Welcome from Ohio! The forest behind your avatar looks pretty stocked with wood!!

It is indeed! Black cherry, black locust, sugar maple, red oak, hickory, walnut and some standing dead ash.

 

[Bill Boehme]

It is indeed! Black cherry, black locust, sugar maple, red oak, hickory, walnut and some standing dead ash.

Are the standing dead ash trees the handiwork of the Emerald Ash Borer?

 

[Paul Ruud]

Are the standing dead ash trees the handiwork of the Emerald Ash Borer?

Yes, they are. Ash spalts easily, by the way.

 

[Robert Levin]

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Hello everyone! I am a beginning woodturner, although I have been a woodworker for longer than I care to admit. I was given a Powermatic 3520A recently by a friend who was replacing it with a new Robust lathe and that is how I got started. The lathe needed a new VFD and I found a very helpful post here on the AAW Forums that, along with careful comparison of several manuals and some experimentation, made it possible for me to make a replacement with a brand new VFD. At this point, I am focusing on turning bowls but having a lathe in my shop has been a great help for other purposes as well.

I am also an avid cyclist and a college professor. I teach economics at Vassar College in the Mid-Hudson Valley. My wonderful wife and I live on 4 acres with enough trees to give me all the wood that I need. I even built a solar wood kiln to dry the boards that I mill. Turning bowls is, of course, steering some logs away from the milling process.

You are all a wonderful resource. I am thankful to be able to benefit from the AAW Forums. I have already made my first post to try to give back.

View attachment 66135

Hello everyone! I am a beginning woodturner, although I have been a woodworker for longer than I care to admit. I was given a Powermatic 3520A recently by a friend who was replacing it with a new Robust lathe and that is how I got started. The lathe needed a new VFD and I found a very helpful post here on the AAW Forums that, along with careful comparison of several manuals and some experimentation, made it possible for me to make a replacement with a brand new VFD. At this point, I am focusing on turning bowls but having a lathe in my shop has been a great help for other purposes as well.

I am also an avid cyclist and a college professor. I teach economics at Vassar College in the Mid-Hudson Valley. My wonderful wife and I live on 4 acres with enough trees to give me all the wood that I need. I even built a solar wood kiln to dry the boards that I mill. Turning bowls is, of course, steering some logs away from the milling process.

You are all a wonderful resource. I am thankful to be able to benefit from the AAW Forums. I have already made my first post to try to give back.

Hi Paul and welcome. As a newbie myself I also find AAW an excellent resource. I have recently joined the AAW Water Gap Wood Turners Club in Peters Valley NJ which is also proving to be a great resource.